Amazing hoard of TVs ...

[electronjohn]

Cool! More than just TVs in there...I spied a GE "Monitor" fridge...you know, the kind with the works in the round housing on top.

Were those stacks of CRTs all NOS?

[Phil Nelson]

Hoarding cases like that are sad. The hoarder has no interest in using the items, much less restoring them. They are not even displayed. It's all about the getting -- and then they are forgotten and often left to crumble.

I went to an estate sale several weeks ago that was similar, although not as extreme. At least the things piled in the house had been kept mostly dry. Not true for the items crammed into two unheated sheds in the back. Everything back there was slowly returning to the elements.

After witnessing a scene like that, I return home and look at my own piles of "stuff" with a different eye.

That said, I would have enjoyed exploring that shed. Haven't we all had those "treasure" dreams, where you stumble onto an amazing trove of interesting stuff?

Phil Nelson

[maxhifi]

I used to have dreams like that - going into some garage, and finding a filthy mcintosh mc-60 or something. Then wake up and realize i have to get up and go to work haha.

The tv show hoarders is entertaining, i usually end up watching it in hotels, since i don't get tlc at home. usually it's slobs or people with mental illness, but the occasional episode i think hey just leave this guy alone.